Alienation In Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men
Alienation
Defining what alienation really is requires experiencing the feeling of it firsthand. It is the fear of being completely alone, whether in life or in a situation that nobody else understands. It’s a feeling that is impossible to fake because it is basically born from fear. Looking at the texts Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Peter Pan by J.M Barrie and Inception written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the aspects of alienation is shown through the isolation of going through different situations that no one else can truly understand.
Of Mice and Men tells a tale of two men surviving in the Great Depression. Lennie Small’s slow intelligence and George Milton’s patient nature combine as these two friends travel through California …show more content…
He experiences alienation through George’s outbursts of displeasure at the acts of which Lennie does not know that he is doing wrong such as petting the dead mouse and removing the small pup from its mother. Lennie, however, does not fully understand what is right and what is wrong. His brash actions towards the elements presented to him unknowingly caused his untimely death because of a mistake he made when he did not really know about the situation. Accidentally killing Curley’s wife made Lennie panic because he was afraid of George getting angry at him for another mistake. The fear of losing his only friend had rendered Lennie senseless to anything else around him when he chose to flee, relying on George to, once again, pull him from the hole that he had unknowing dug for himself.
Inception gives the audience the experience of travelling through a dream. Following the perspectives of each of the characters throughout the movie, it can be seen clearly that none of the characters have any real connection to one another except for the familiarity of doing the job. The art of inception incorporates delving in the mind of the subject they are after to extract information for a client. It’s basically a movie about being a spy in the war of the business
Defining what alienation really is requires experiencing the feeling of it firsthand. It is the fear of being completely alone, whether in life or in a situation that nobody else understands. It’s a feeling that is impossible to fake because it is basically born from fear. Looking at the texts Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Peter Pan by J.M Barrie and Inception written and directed by Christopher Nolan, the aspects of alienation is shown through the isolation of going through different situations that no one else can truly understand.
Of Mice and Men tells a tale of two men surviving in the Great Depression. Lennie Small’s slow intelligence and George Milton’s patient nature combine as these two friends travel through California …show more content…
He experiences alienation through George’s outbursts of displeasure at the acts of which Lennie does not know that he is doing wrong such as petting the dead mouse and removing the small pup from its mother. Lennie, however, does not fully understand what is right and what is wrong. His brash actions towards the elements presented to him unknowingly caused his untimely death because of a mistake he made when he did not really know about the situation. Accidentally killing Curley’s wife made Lennie panic because he was afraid of George getting angry at him for another mistake. The fear of losing his only friend had rendered Lennie senseless to anything else around him when he chose to flee, relying on George to, once again, pull him from the hole that he had unknowing dug for himself.
Inception gives the audience the experience of travelling through a dream. Following the perspectives of each of the characters throughout the movie, it can be seen clearly that none of the characters have any real connection to one another except for the familiarity of doing the job. The art of inception incorporates delving in the mind of the subject they are after to extract information for a client. It’s basically a movie about being a spy in the war of the business